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Re: [Fwd: vinegar for screenings] From: Patti Tessler (tessler@frontiernet.net) Tue Mar 23 05:22:47 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re:In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:31:13 MDT."" Previous message: Patti Tessler: "Re: privacy of records" Maybe in reply to: Gloria Lemay: "[Fwd: vinegar for screenings]" Next in thread: Ealgail@aol.com: "Re: [Fwd: vinegar for screenings]" In a message dated 3/21/99 5:12:26 PM, gloria_lemay@ultranet.ca writes, and DoctorJoe@aol.com answers: ><< Thought I would send along this Yahoo news item on the use of vinegar in >poor countries in lieu of Pap tests. Recently heard Gabe Merkin, M.D., >on the radio describe how he finds genital warts on the penis by swathing >the penis in gauze soaked in vinegar and then wrapping the whole "package >in Saran Wrap for five minutes while the man reads a magazine. After the >5 minute soak the warts that were invisible to the eye show up as white >dots and can be removed. Is this a common practice, anybody? >>You can do the acetic acid thing with the penis just like what you do with the >cervix at colposcopy... I thought that was sort of "standard"... Actually, it is not. The test is nonspecific. When using vinegar on the penis of a man, you're looking for so-called subclinical condyloma. And then the plan is...what? In contrast, during a colposcopy, you're looking at a cervix that has already produced an abnormal Pap smear. If vinegar screening of men is a standard, then why not do vinegar screening of the vulva as well? To my knowledge, there's no evidence that treating so-called subclinical condyloma makes any difference in outcomes. -- Patti Tessler, RN, CS, Family Nurse Practitioner (ANCC certified) Orange County, NY mailto:tessler@frontiernet.net Next message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re:In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:31:13 MDT."" Previous message: Patti Tessler: "Re: privacy of records" Maybe in reply to: Gloria Lemay: "[Fwd: vinegar for screenings]" Next in thread: Ealgail@aol.com: "Re: [Fwd: vinegar for screenings]"

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